The Vuelta a Espana starts on the 17th of August and finishes on the 8th of September. It is the final Grand Tour of the season and, like every year, it will feature a luxurious startlist packed with climbers, sprinters and classics riders looking for their final opportunity to win big in a Grand To...

CyclistHow much is the 2024 Vuelta a Espaa prize money?This year the organisers of the Vuelta a Espaa will dish out 1,119,960 (approx 953,484) in prize money. Thats just less than half the prize pot at the Tour de France and, like the Tour, most is allocated to the general classification, with the final red jersey earning the winner 150,000, with nearly 60,000 for second and 30,000 for third.Heres how the Vuelta prize money is divvied out.General classificationUNIPUBLIC / SPRINT CYCLING AGENCYThe most significant single chunk of prize money on offer will go to the overall winner, wholl take home 150,000. This drops to 57,985 for second place, with the last step on the podium in Madrid getting a handy 30,000. Behind them, the top ten are also relatively well remunerated. Interestingly, every rider between tenth and 20th in Madrid receives the same 3,800 lump sum. Prizes for the final general classification1st: 150,0002nd: 57,9853rd: 30,0004th: 15,0005th: 12,5006th: 9,0007th: 9,0008th: 6,0009th: 6,00010th to 20th: 3,800Total: 337,285 Related Posts Cyclists 2024 Vuelta a Espaa predictions The Vuelta a Espaa leaders red jersey: Everything you need to know Who are the favourites for the 2024 Vuelta a Espaa? How to watch and live stream the Vuelta a Espaa 2024 Vuelta a Espaa 2024: Route, start list, how to watch and all you need to know Individual stage winsUnipublic/Sprint Cycling AgencyEach stage winner will bank a handy 11,000 for their efforts. Prizes for placings on each stage are distributed all the way down to the 20th finisher, giving even those well behind the leader a reason to put on a show for the fans. Once added together over the races 21 stages, a total of 606,060 will be handed out.Prizes for each stage1st: 11,0002nd: 5,5003rd: 2,7004th: 1,5005th: 1,1006th: 9007th: 9008th: 6509th: 65010th to 20th: 360Total per stage: 28,860Points, mountains and young riders classificationsUnipublic/Sprint Cycling AgencyWhile there are points to be won for taking sprints or mountain summits, the leaders of the mountains and points jerseys receive a daily reward for heading their particular classifications. While each red jersey is worth 500 each day, the leader in the points competition gets only 100 for each day they hold on to the green jersey.The same goes for the leader of the mountains competition. The best young rider, meanwhile, gets just 70 a day, barely enough to keep them stocked up on sweets and fizzy pop in the current climate.The rider that claims each of the jerseys at the end of the race however will do a bit better. The winner of the mountains competition does best of all with 13,000 while the best young rider and the points competition winner both pocket 11,000.Young rider and Points classification overall1st: 11,0002nd: 5,0003rd: 2,000Mountains classification overall1st: 13,0002nd: 6,6003rd: 3,500Climbs and sprintsOn the way to Madrid, there will be numerous intermediate sprints and categorised climbs. Each sprint will see the first three riders over the line awarded 550, 180, and 95 respectively.For the climbers, there are two ESP climbs (or special category, comparable to the HC hors catgorie classification at the Tour de France). First over gets 1,000 and second receives 520. First category climbs have 920 and 615 on offer to the leading riders, second category climbs offer 230 and 155, and third category 115 and 80. Teams classificationUnipublic/Sprint Cycling AgencyThe team classification for each stage is calculated by adding the times of the three leading riders from each squad. At the end of the day, the first place team on that stage gets 400, with the second placed squad receiving 200, while the third placed wins 100.At the end of the three weeks of racing, the team finishing first receives 12,500, with prize money awarded down to the eighth placed outfit.Team classification overall1st: 12,5002nd: 7,5003rd: 5,5004th: 4,3005th: 3,2006th: 2,2007th: 1,1008th: 1,100Most aggressive riderThe rider deemed most combative each day wins the gold number for the following day along with 200. The rider considered the most aggressive throughout the entire race wins 3,000.Distribution of fundsWhile you might expect a successful racer to come away with a good amount of cash, by tradition, any money won throughout the race is put in a kitty and divided between riders and backroom staff. Cycling is a team sport after all.For more coverage on the Vuelta a Espaa, visit our hub page. Related Posts Cyclists 2024 Vuelta a Espaa predictions The Vuelta a Espaa leaders red jersey: Everything you need to know Who are the favourites for the 2024 Vuelta a Espaa? How to watch and live stream the Vuelta a Espaa 2024 Vuelta a Espaa 2024: Route, start list, how to watch and all you need to know The post How much is the 2024 Vuelta a Espaa prize money? appeared first on Cyclist.

Throughout the 2024 Vuelta a Espaa there will be many riders to withdraw from the race, for several different reasons. We make a list of all riders who leave the Spanish Grand Tour as well as list out a few of the main crashes and health issues that take place during the race.Nothing to note.Dyla...

CyclistWho are the rising stars to watch at the Tour de lAvenir 2024?The 2024 Tour de lAvenir is underway. Setting out from Sarrebourg on Sunday, the race is currently making its way south to a finale atop the gravel Colle delle Finestre on Saturday 24th August.The Tour de lAvenir is the youngsters Tour de France. The race traverses France on similar roads to the elite mens peloton and follows the same jersey conventions as the great race. For riders under the age of 23, the Tour de lAvenir which translates as the Tour of the Future is the top stage race in their calendar. To add, the race is fought by national teams instead of the commercial trade teams we see at the mens and womens Tours de France.Success at the Tour de lAvenir usually points towards great things to come. In the past, climbers, sprinters and punchers alike have broken into the WorldTour on the back of Tour de lAvenir success. Tadej Pogaar and Egan Bernal both of whom became Tour de France champions are among the races former winners. Nairo Quintana, Greg Lemond, Laurent Fignon and Miguel Indurin have also won the yellow jersey at the Tour de lAvenir during the races 60-year history.Every year, this race gives us a good glimpse at who the upcoming stars of road racing will be. Last year, Isaac del Toro became the first Mexican to win the race. A year later, he has a number of big wins including a stage victory at the Tour Down Under and a string of top tens at WorldTour races. Who could follow in the footsteps of Del Toro this year? Jarno WidarRCS18-year-old Jarno Widar has stated that his ultimate goal is to beat Tadej Pogaar. Big words from a rider who is still only a teenager. However, the man from Hasselt has backed up this statement with some bullish results at the under-23 level. Widar won the Giro Next Gen, the young riders Giro dItalia, in June. At that race, he took two stages and pumped out some climbing times that easily rivals the senior peloton. Widars exploits are not confined to the Giro Next Gen. The young Belgian claimed overall victories at other prominent youth races at the Alpes IsreTour and the Giro Ciclistico della Valle dAosta. At the latter, Widar took the GC victory by a margin of nine minutes. On top of these GC results, Widar gained notoriety among Belgian scouts by winning the cobbled Classics of the Tour of Flanders, Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne and Nokere Koerse in his home nation. Perhaps he is the next Tadej Pogaar after all.Signed with Lotto-Dstny until 2027, he is the next big hopeful for Belgian cycling, hoping to follow in the footsteps of the greats before him.Mathys RondelFilip Bezdek/Tudor Pro CyclingFrenchman Mathys Rondels father was a professional speed skater. Rondel, from Le Mans in the west of France. followed suit and began his sporting career as a young talent on the ice. After making it into the French national skating team, Rondel transitioned to cycling four years ago at the age of 17 after a skating season stripped bare by the Covid pandemic.In 2023, Rondel was scouted by Tudor Pro Cycling and later joined their development team. During 2022 and 2023, Rondel proved his athletic abilities with a podium finish at the Tour Alsace and top ten finishes at the Ronde de lIsard and the Tour de lAvenir. Just a teenager at this point, Rondel was punching above his weight for his young age.At Tudor Pro Cycling, Rondel has made it onto the senior team for some top races including the Coppi e Bartali and the Tour of The Alps. At the Alpine Giro warm-up race, Rondel finished in 11th place in the general classification. This year, Rondel claimed his first major GC win at the Orlen Nations Grand Prix in Poland. Later in the year, he finished fourth at the Giro Next Gen and found his way onto the French national team for the Tour de lAvenir as the host nations leader.Much like French star of old Thibaut Pinot, Rondel is a farmer at heart. He owns a dog, a pig and chickens and hopes to house more animals at a farm he is building in the Pyrenees.Andrew AugustJunior Tour of IrelandAndrew August also known as AJ has been on the Ineos Grenadiers roster for the past couple of months. He hasnt raced any under-23 races this year, but the 18-year-old goes into the Tour de lAvenir as one of the favourites.The American rider from New York was scouted by the British team last summer under the promise of a huge VO2 max and watts per kilo stats. This was demonstrated in 2023 with some big results at the under-23 level including an emphatic overall win at the Ain Bugey Valmorey Tour and a runner-up finish at the highly-competitive Peace Race in the Czech Republic. He also won the American junior cyclocross championships last year and the Junior Tour of Ireland in 2022.August snuck into the top ten at the Czech Tour won by Marc Hirschi. He also rode the Tour of the Alps, Paris-Roubaix, UAE Tour and Tour of Austria for Ineoss senior team. He is a strong climber with a good kick on him. August will be leading the hopes of the American team that also boasts future Ineos recruit Artem Schmidt and Visma prodigy Colby Simmons.Joe BlackmoreBritish CyclingSouth Londons Joe Blackmore has been a revelation of the 2024 season. The 21-year-old began 2024 by winning the GC standings at both the Tour of Rwanda and the Tour of Taiwan.He started the season with Israel-Premier Techs academy team before moving onto the senior team a couple of months later.Blackmore has made some top-level cameos, including at the Brabantse Pijl where he finished in fourth place while on teammate duties for Dylan Teuns. Blackmores form continued with a win at the under-23s Lige-Bastogne-Lige.Blackmore is more of a Classics rider than a GC contender and is the current gravel National Champion but he has the potential to evolve into a well-rounded card at Israel-Premier Tech where he is contracted until 2026. At the 2024 Tour de lAvenir, he has already shown his all-rounder prowess with a close call on the opening prologue, finishing in second place.He is also the current European under-23 XCC mountain bike champion, so look out for him in more off-road disciplines in the years to come.Henrik PedersenPatrick BarAlready a stage winner and yellow jersey wearer, Henrik Pedersen has become a breakout star of the 2024 Tour de lAvenir. The current European champion clinched a closely fought win on Stage 1. After a strong prologue, Pedersen went into the maillot jaune. The Dane is in pole position to win the green jersey, much like he has done in previous under-23 races.As mentioned, Pedersen claimed a defining win at the European Championships last year on a tough course around the artificial cobbled climb VAM-berg. He has also climbed through the Danish scene by winning a handful of one-day wins in his home nation. This includes the junior national title and a top ten in the elite time-trial earlier this year.Uno-X Mobility have also confirmed that Pedersen will move onto their elite team from 2025. The Dane will soon be a crucial figure in the Norwegian squads Classics goals alongside Jonas Abrahamsen, Alexander Kristoff and Magnus Cort.Gal GlivarGiro del BelvedereGal Glivar is hotly tipped by Slovenian journalists to become the nations next big star. After Rogli and Pogaar, we expect to see Slovenian Glivar raising his arms at a Grand Tour in the next decade.Glivar is not aiming for the yellow jersey, however. He is a hardy rider capable of winning reduced sprints and Classics. He has pointed out his aspirations to win Lige-Bastogne-Lige in the future for instance.Now 22 years of age and signed onto the UAE Team Emirates development squad, Glivar has enjoyed some big successes at the under-23 level. In 2023, he took the overall title at the Carpathian Couriers Race and the Orlen Nations Grand Prix. This year already, he has won the Giro del Belvedere and the Tour of Shajarah. At the ongoing 2024 Tour de lAvenir, Glivar has scored a top-three finish on Stage 1s rolling profile. Look out for him in the green of Slovenia on Stage 5 to come.Matthew BrennanRCSOne of the brightest sprinting talents in the under-23 scene, Matthew Brennan of Great Britain has a great future ahead of him. Born in August 2005, Brennan has just turned 19. The rider from County Durham in the north of England comes from a track background. He transitioned onto the road in 2022 with the Fensham Howes-MAS Designsquad. The Visma-Lease a Bike development rider has scored some big wins at the beginning of the year. Brennan doubled up in Croatia with sprint victories at the Trofej Umag and Trofej Pore, emulating the palmars of teammate Olav Kooij.At the Giro Next Gen, Brennan took the final stage to Forlimpopoli. He also rode a consistent Orlen Nations Grand Prix, finishing in the top six on all five stages. During the 2024 season, Brennan also stepped up to the senior Visma-Lease a Bike team during the spring. With the squad, Brennan finished in third place at the Circuit de Wallonie behind top sprinters Alex Zingle and Arnaud de Lie and rode to the top ten at the Rund um Kln.In steady fashion, Brennan has already finished within the top five on three occasions at the Tour de lAvenir, even on the tougher punchy profiles.Other riders to watch Tour de l'AvenirThe 2024 Tour de lAvenir is packed with young talents already signed onto WorldTour teams are embedded within top flight development teams. UAE Team Emirates rider and spring Classics breakout star Antnio Morgado of Portugal stars in the Tour de lAvenir.Morgado became the youngest rider to reach the top ten at a Monument in 80 years. 18-year-old stage winner from the Giro Next Gen Pablo Torres will lead Spanish hopes. He is currently contracted to UAE Team Emirates development team.Peace Race winner Brieuc Rolland will support Rondels chances for France. The Groupama-FDJ rider finished in second place at Lige-Bastogne-Lige and the Orlen Nations Grand Prix this year. Another WorldTour rider, Ineoss Michael Leonard has already won a stage of the Tour de lAvenir for Canada in the opening days prologue. He beat Swedens Lidl-Trek rider Jakob Sderqvist to first that day.A wildcard to watch will be Pavel Novk of the Czech Republic. He won the Trofeo Piva and placed fifth overall at the Giro Next Gen back in June. He was previously enlisted to Q36.5 and is in the hunt for an elite contract for 2025. 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Although a relatively calm day for the most part, switching off is always a danger to general classification hopefuls in a Grand Tour, something Primoz Roglic knows all too well.On stage 5 of the 2024 Vuelta a Espana, the Red Jersey wearing Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe leader was thankfully able to a...

Part III of the Kaden Groves vs Wout van Aert sprint rivalry at the 2024 Vuelta a Espana has gone to Pavel Bittner! After an incredibly tight sprint, the Team DSM-Firmenich PostNL man just edged Van Aert at the line.Already potentially one of the final chances for the sprinters, there was little de...

Progress is being made on constructing a two-way cycle path between the Docklands and OConnell Bridge.The project under construction along the south quays also included making footpaths along the quays accessible for the first time in decades and adding trees. Most of the cycle paths concrete buffer has been installed except for a small section approaching the Docklands end of the project at Talbot Memorial Bridge. Protective kerbing has also been built at OConnell Street Bridge, but similar work has yet to be undertaken at Talbot Memorial Bridge.The majority of the footpaths and services ducting work have also been installed. Work has also been undertaken to protect the existing trees and plant new trees.Besides the kerbing around Talbot Memorial Bridge that has to be finished, the cycle path surface and the traffic lights are the other significant measures that need to be finalised. The new cycle path is part of the interim Liffey Cycle Route and is also effectively an extension of the existing two-way cycle path in the south Docklands. This path links to Lombard Street, the Royal Canal Route, the Grand Canal Cycleway via Grand Canal Square, the North Wall Quay Cycle Path to the Point, and the contra-flow cycle path, which extends around Customs House to Busras via the Talbot Memorial Bridge.A drawing for the project also shows a link from Moss Street, a one-way, southbound street directly south of the Talbot Memorial Bridge. A contra-flow link from Townsend Street and Pearse Street was promised via Moss Street 14 years ago, but along with other contra-flow proposals, it was never delivered at the time.As part of the Dublin City Centre Transport Plan, the gap in the cycle path network between the end of the Clontarf to City Centre route project at Connelly Station and the quays at Talbot Memorial Bridge will also be filled. The phasing is unknown at this time and will depend on whether there are further delays to the roll-out of the city centre plan.

The Vuelta a Espaa 2024, after 4 stages, has already started to take shape as far as the fight for the general classification is concerned. Primoz Roglic already has the red jersey after triumphing on the first high mountain day. The Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe rider may have put himself as the man...

Away from the 2024 Vuelta a Espana, the Deutschland Tour kicked off this Wednesday afternoon with a short prologue. In a display of dominance by Lidl-Trek, Jonathan Milan narrowly edged teammate Mads Pedersen for the win.It was really important for us to start well in this race, admits the two ti...

The Deutschland Tour starts today with a prologue in the town of Schweinfurt; it will be a 2.9-kilometer effort that will open up the race and see riders such as Filippo Ganna, Ethan Hayter and Mads Pedersen fighting for the win. We take a look at the start times and order for it.The first rider to...